Much evaporation off the Pacific (probably because of seafloor volcanics) in the spring and summer, and weather patterns moving it eastward, plus unseasonably cool arctic air from the north, caused the excessive rainfall in the upper Midwest, the high water still chugging down to New Orleans, down the Mississippi river, now meeting the storm surge and intense rainfall of tropical storm Barry in the Gulf, a recipe for disaster, so we pray the hurricane is minimal, and that it won’t sit over the Gulf coast too long, because the levies along the Mississippi could breach to cause more disastrous damage.
